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Saturday, October 1, 2011

In the Kitchen ~ Candy Buttons

It's actually fun when they are helping out in the kitchen. I love that they are so ready to learn and jump right in to help.

I saw a recipe a few months ago for candy buttons, do you remember them? They looked super easy to make, so I thought we could give it a try.

Here is a picture of the real thing:

I think we nailed it.

It is a really simple and fun recipe for kids to make!

Here is what you will need -

1 egg

1 1/2 c. powdered sugar

food coloring

wax paper

Mix the egg white & powdered sugar together in a bowl for roughly 5 minutes, until your mixture can form stiff peaks. Separate into little bowls and add food coloring, mix well. Put mixture into a sandwich bag and cut a small corner to pipe the mixture onto wax paper, into little dots. Let dry overnight. Ta-da! You have made your own candy buttons. I gave a bag to each of my kids and let them go at it. We had fun......they even drew pictures on wax paper with the left overs we had.

4 comments:

Love the candy buttons, too cute :) Looks like a great project to do with kids, I bet my two and five year old would get a kick out of these! New follower from bloggy moms, have a great week! You can find me athttp://wvfrugal-wvsaver.blogspot.com/Stop by my blog when you get the chance :)